Self Host or Be Profiled: What Big Tech Won’t Let You Own
This isn’t about purity. It’s about power.
Start small. Pick one thing to pull out of their cloud.
This isn’t about purity. It’s about power.
Start small. Pick one thing to pull out of their cloud.
OpSec isn’t just for spooks and hackers. It’s for anyone who still gives a damn about freedom in the digital age.
Data brokers depend on you doing nothing.
On you feeling overwhelmed, tired, defeated.
Prove them wrong.
To cut off the surveillance supply chain that turns your personality into a profit center. When you stop being predictable, you become ungovernable not by law, but by manipulation.
The digital police state isn’t looming. It’s operational. Active. Up and running 24/7.
And here’s the uncomfortable truth: it thrives because most people are too distracted, too comfortable, or too busy to give a damn.
It’s your data. Your life. Your choice.
Stop feeding the beast. Start taking control.
Privacy is not a bunker. It’s not cutting every wire, ghosting every friend, and hoping the grid forgets you exist. That’s fantasy. Romanticized exile for people who don’t understand surveillance capitalism.
We’ve glamorized “always learning” like it’s a virtue.
But there’s a fine line between curiosity and compulsion.
Between sharpening the blade and never using it.
People assume their data is locked up tight unless there’s a warrant. The truth is messier.